I wish I could tell you you’re wrong, but… :(

And if Dutton gets elected this year it will get soooo much worse. Hey, New Zealand is a beautiful place! Maybe I’ll move there too!

Or learn the old “eat the TV before the inspector arrives”.

I guess I’m showing my age, but hopefully enough old folks get it.

So, the Gulf of They/Them is what the rest of the world should call it? I can get behind that.

My source of alternative facts says it was the biglyest audience in the history of everything.

I’m sure it will get hit with the enshitification hammer soon enough…

How the writers are still employable, let alone not in massive debt, astounds me. They single-handedly got one of the most successful shows, a show that people wouldn’t shut up about and were hanging for each episode every week, and turned it into something to feel a bit embarrassed to admit liking. All the potential DVD/bluray sales - gone. All the merchandising - gone. The potential for spin-off shows - gone. HBO and their partners just watched millions in revenue disappear in one catastrophic season,and somehow D&D got away with it.

I did laugh when Disney told them their services weren’t needed after all though.

I’m happy to be corrected, but my understanding is this all stems from a MegaLag video published a month ago. There would be no need for LegalEagle to republish all the claims and it understandably takes some time to file suit. In short, the info was already out there for everyone to see.

I’d suggest they know growth of the platforms is waning, if not going backwards, but if they create a heap of bots and call them “active users” then the share price won’t go down. That’s the only reason I can think of.

… for now.

Got it. It’s more to do with the case of an off-site backup in-case-your-house-burns-down scenario. Thanks.

RAID is not a backup anyhow

Can you expand on that? I have a 2-bay NAS with a RAID 1 (disk mirroring) set up precisely because I thought if one disk fails I have a backup. Is that not how it works?

Yeah 1896 was pretty bad for computer games in general. And computers.

They have a concept of quitting.

AI being pumped into everything. It drives me absolutely nuts that every fucking thing has to have AI. Now you can buy a laptop that uses AI to write an email, just so the receiver can use AI to summarise it. We’re going to start using computers to develop enormous amounts of crap before we finally realise that putting the effort into writing, reading, drawing, designing etc. is actually worthwhile. Don’t get me wrong, I see several use cases for AI where it’s very good, and studied genetic algorithms at uni (i.e. software that can rewrite itself given feedback on its output), but what is being pushed on us now will just encourage laziness and ultimately be a detriment to humans in general.

I feel that divergence is what made DS9 so good. Instead of travelling around exploring aliens, we’re stationary exploring ourselves and our politics. It was a great idea to make a show about a completely different aspect of Starfleet life. Unfortunately, in my opinion, the last great idea they had.

Except he was found in Pakistan, yes?

Or more noticably all the southern hemisphere penguins

Amon Göth. Such a good movie, but I just can’t see Liam Neeson in any other role - especially “tough guy” roles - after watching it.

The shrug is before the stomp. In the video she obviously complains when she is stood on, but the commonly shared still is mid-stomp before the player has had time to react to the pain.